Michael Koryta is an amazingly talented writer, and I rank The Prophet as one of the sharpest and superbly plotted crime novels I've read in my life.
The world is what you make of it, friend. If it doesn’t fit, you make alterations.
I can't be a man. But I can embrace the head of a man, the intelligence of a man, the spirit of a man.
I think people have always liked in me the combination of being the underdog because I'm a tiny woman but I have enormous authority in myself.
For a while, I thought, maybe I should direct, until I got to New York and saw the stupidity of that idea. If it's hard to get into acting, what is it like for a woman to become a director?
Everybody either wanted to take care of me or push me around, you know? I was teased a lot, sure I was, of course. Fourth grade, fifth grade, sixth grade, everybody was taking their spurts except me. I was not growing up.
When I was 16, nobody else talked like me. Nobody else sounded like me.
Faith is a fine invention When gentlemen can see, But microscopes are prudent In an emergency.
It's very hard not to be condescending when you're explaining something to an idiot.
Not all tongues that wag cohabit with a brain.
I was kind of lost for several years.